Now, that was an interesting read and indeed it promises to be some quite different kind of experience and challenge compared to the "usual" settings. I'm very much looking forward to this planet, an the expansion as a whole :) Currently I'm un-rusting my factorio skills - and they cannot ...

It's definitely not a show-stopper. It is however an inconsistency in behaviour that is not understandable

See the attached screenshot and savegame:

I can walk straight up and pass between the chemical plant and its attached storage tank. I cannot do the same between e.g. pipe or pump and tank I don't expect to be able to walk over any fluid connection.

Consider the setup as in the screenshot: one train is waiting at the entrance to the station complex while there are accessible free stations. Is there a way to make it favour the non-occopied but open stations instead of waiting for an occupied one? The difference is the open, but un-occupied are b...

I think nests might evolve to be more durable during the game. With defender capsules / personal laser turret I can destroy nests very rapidly just by running around them. One have to avoid getting into acid but with exoskeleton it is much easier. That works well, until you run into a cliff or get ...

Consider the setup as in the screenshot and savegame. There is a station which is occupied by a train with a signal immediately in front of the station and one immediately after the station. Why is the signal in front of the station (thus where the train is standing on, gps -96,-48) also green while...

I habe one network for a 900spm base and release more bots when none are available anymore. It's easy to get 8000 construction bots working - and it will increase more as I hit 0 available frequently when I claim new territory

I sometimes had the impression that a blueprint is only uploaded to the server-usable blueprints when I explicitly want to use it. And then it takes, of course, a small time to actually upload it (depending on size and connection)

Many many hours further into the game the biters did not move at all.
In the debug info it says under "Ticks left to wait: Inf" and "Ticks since avoidance: 9234034"... so that means they never plan to move and they avoided <whatever> nearly 2 real-life days ago?

I'm not necessarily convinced that "they just take time". Looking at https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=81238 I continued the savegame just fine. "Mine" definitely should be or have been aggroed as they gathered as result of their nest being destroyed by artiller...

So basically what the fast inserter does but with different graphics?

But I still think this Lubricant issue is a recipes design problem. On the contrary, I feel that it is a good feature, not a problem of the game / recipe design. It is one thing which needs different solutions than most other building / ressource problems in factorio. As variety adds to the attract...

I would love to see something like this, too. As a work-around currently you can use big-enough blueprints which just have the length of one train length including signals at front and back (so that you see when you place it correctly)

so, whatever the product i use from the fluid system at whatever rate, there should be a way to build (no matter how complex it is) to balance out the by products of refinery. this is what the requested suggestion is i believe And exactly that is asking "make refinery usage easier, I don't wan...

Looks like you really don't get the point. Of course everyone loves oil processing puzzle, chemical products balancing, etc. But lubricant shortage isn't a puzzle. It is potentially unavoidable deadlock. Current tools allow to minimize chances of this deadlock, but it is always potentially possible...

Hence I'm just asking for the same to apply for lubrication by adding a second probably worse, recipe for it. Say (random) 20 crude oil and 10 water or something? It's obviously worse than just using 10 heavy oil but that's the point. As is already precedent by solid fuel. I also feel that this doe...

I like that ore remains somewhat visible.

Try to start you server without specifying an IP explicitly. Unless you have a special setup with multiple network interfaces, that should work. You still will need to know your server's IP address or the DNS entry which resolves to your server in order to connect to your factorio server, though. Ca...

Isn't it a simple switch to not put ammo into an artillery turret? The auto-targeting of the artillery train got me, too, though. It doesn't fire when on manual control, but auto-fires when the train is on automatic schedule. Which makes sense. But is not intuitive. And schedule also seems to apply ...

There's also so many ways to achieve a / the goal. The point is also to explore the many ways possible. Always doing things one way which works surely gets boring quickly. But there's A LOT of ways. And it's fun trying them out in different games (or even the same)